This is the first World of Warcraft thread for ILG

Also, yeah, why are goblins still not playable? Horde needs a small race.

I played on a pvp server as Horde and gained a healthy burning hatred for the Alliance. Bunch of filthy savages imo.

hah, same here. I've been moonlighting on a PvE server lately and I don't even understand why people on those servers have any animosity toward each other.

Undead are the small race for the Horde. Geez, we're tiny compared to everyone else.

Sleight on The Scryers. I forget how to do URLs on this thingy.

just paste the URL, the board will linkify it for you

Oh, right then.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=The+Scryers&n=Sleight

Note that I'm retired as of last night, likely only to play with a group of college friends for the...fun of it and not to be a 'leet raider.

I'm thinking about starting up again. Does ILX have a raiding guild or something?

Ha, nope. We're all scattered all over the place.

I was messing around on PTR, and I must say dual specs are very cool. Almost makes me wish I was a hybrid class so they were useful to me.

Same here- dual specs are neat, and it'll be nice to be able to PVP without having to pay for the privilege every time, but it's a bit of an anticlimax when your class's talent trees all essentially boil down to "stab the mans til they falls down".

so I keep looking at websites for guilds like LootFTW and Exodus and wondering why these ppl play World of Warcraft if all they want to do is blast through content as fast as they possibly can

Exodus killed Vezax and is working on Yogg-Saron, ffs!

when I read abt wow I begin to understand how folx must feel when they read street fighter nerds

death knights = ken, if that helps

hahaha

christ, someone has already killed Yogg-Saron

IT'S THURSDAY

have fun waiting for new content

seriously... what fun is that?

the thing I can't figure out is that my whole guild is decked out in T7.5 gear, tanks are all wearing best-in-slot stuff, and our two groups doing 10-man Uld got owned last night. Couldn't even kill whatever boss is after flame leviathan. i suspect some of them went in there expecting to destroy the place and got a lesson in humility (example: one tank was still using his threat spec and gear set). i'm doing heroic tonight, so that should be fun.

Isn't the boss after Flame Leviathan the one who throws a random person into a melting pot that does 7k dmg/sec?

yup

haha I can see why they thought they'd just roll through that one

oh btw dual-spec is v.v pretty

they did a really good job with it. too bad i can't really justify the cost on a DK (no interest in tanking or pvping)

seriously considering switching mains lately.

grrr fucking job making me miss our first foray into ulduar

we downed leviathan and got Razorscale after about seven attempts. Apparently Ignis is bugged, so we skipped ahead to XT-002 and wiped on him 3 times before calling it a night. we raid for 3 hours 3x a week. bunch of fogies in our guild. so far i'm enjoying the Ulduar fights quite a bit!

Started a Paladin a few days ago, got a leveling guide and basically binged over Passover. Paladin is now level 50. I'm officially switching mains from my rogue. Turns out rogues suck at powerleveling. Paladins are the win.

one thing dual specs have done is make me wish I had a true hybrid class. I finally bought a 2nd spec for my DK but it feels wasted since I'm not really all that interested in tanking. Pallies and shaman are excellent choices for a main.

XT-002 is incredibly, amazingly annoying! Pretty awesome boss, but WOW what an annoying fight; ditto Kologarn (stupid fucking eyebeams).

The trash in the antechamber is crazy! I now see what I was missing in not doing BWL, pre-nerf BT or SWP.

You're further than us. We spent all night last night wiping on XT-002. A few people had done it on 10-man, but were mystified about why we were getting owned so hard. We only had one mage in group and he was arcane, so we were having a hard time snaring/stopping the little scrapbot things.

Because of my schedule last week, XT-002 is the only boss fight in the courtyard that I've done; 25-man Flame Leviathan and Razorscale were downed on a night I couldn't go (they skipped Ignis) and the 10-man pug I did picked me up after the courtyard had been cleared.

So, I know the fights inside Ulduar but I don't know the first few, lol.

lol why did the Lich King friend me on Facebook

he must be bored up there alone in Icecrown waiting for people to come knocking on his door.

i am not looking forward to the big room of trash of which you speak.

srsly, we screwed up the initial pull and our main tank (pally, 43k hp) got 2-shotted

shit is INTENSE

I have to say, though, that so far I am pleased with the difficulty level.

haha yeah, as one guy said on Vent last night, "It's been so long since we've had to use our brains on these fights!"

for us it's the first time we've been in a raid that hasn't been on farm forever. there are strats online, but they still have holes in them - no real optimal way of doing everything yet. it's nice being able to figure them out together.

random internet dudez 2-manning Flame Leviathin o_O

http://pici.se/pictures/WtcQPXOsR.jpg

Have any of you tried the heirloom stuff yet? I'm trying to decide if it's worth it since, essentially, you're buying one heirloom for one character (unless you decide to make multiple characters that wear DPS cloth, or agility leather, etc).

I haven't, mostly because I haven't wanted to buy leet gear for my shaman with my priest if my priest can't mail it to him.

Also I stopped levelling my alts about a year ago.

I bought two pairs of shoulders (plate and mail) and the axe. I sent them to an alt and transferred the alt to a different server to play with some family members. Leveling is so fast I can't even tell how much the 10% experience thing is helping. My motivation to level an alt is almost non-existent at this point. Been playing for years. It's mostly just something to do while chatting.

omg I should have switched to disc healing years ago, freeing yrself of the tyranny of healing meters = A++

also woot 4/5 T8.5 + first 25-man Yogg kill this past Thursday ^_^

I need to join your guild :/ I can't even get my guild to do Sarth 10-man. I've been PuGing everything (as far as finishing a 25-man Naxx). I'm also one Malygos kill away from getting my Champion of the Northern Wastes title.

I would have that title but for some reason it didn't count my heroic Mal'Ganis kill.

btw, I am also 3 mounts away from an albino drake ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

Grats on the Yogg kill! We've been struggling with that fight. It's really highlighted the weaknesses of our guild. Unfortunately, we're a pretty "casual" guild, with a lot of friends and family, so benching or booting people isn't a realistic option.

We beat the enrage timer by I think 3 seconds, lol.

We stalled for a month when two of our 3 main tanks decided their band was more important than raiding (which I fully endorse btw). It's kind of amazing how much they've nerfed some of the fights (ESPECIALLY XT and Kolo); some of the ease now is knowing how to play them but we reliably do both of those every week without anyone dying, which was just not the case when the dungeon first rolled out.

My new goal is to finish off the Argent Tournament achievement before 3.2 comes out; only have Darnassus to go! Oh, and I have to duel someone but that's basically "hey guildie, let me beat you for this easy achievement lol".

Yeah it had been a point of pride that we stayed ahead of the nerfs, but I think they hotfix nerfed Yogg since we first started (the MCs in phase 1).

I haven't taken much interest in anything outside of raiding, so I haven't really messed with the Argent thing. Do you get something cool if you finish the achievement before 3.2?

eh, I don't know, I just wanted to do it (mostly to get the exalted rep for cheap mounts towards my lovely albino drake)